Gregory Peck on screen, stage, and radio

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A black and white photograph of Peck as Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird.
Peck as Atticus Finch in a publicity photo for To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Gregory Peck (1916–2003)[1] was an American actor who had an extensive career in film, television, radio, and on stage. Peck's breakthrough role was as a Catholic priest who attempts to start a mission in China in the 1944 film The Keys of the Kingdom, for which he received his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.[2][3] In the same year, he played Count Vronsky in a radio adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. He followed this by starring in Alfred Hitchcock's psychological thriller Spellbound (1945) with Ingrid Bergman. In the late 1940s, Peck received three more nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his roles as a caring father in The Yearling (1946), a journalist who pretends to be Jewish to write an exposé on American antisemitism in Gentleman's Agreement (1947), and a brave airman in Twelve O'Clock High (1949).[4][5][6]

Peck co-founded the theatre company La Jolla Playhouse in 1947 with Dorothy McGuire and Mel Ferrer. He starred in productions of Angel Street and The Male Animal for the company.[7] In 1951, he played Royal Navy officer Horatio Hornblower in the eponymous film, David in the biblical epic David and Bathsheba with Susan Hayward, and a soldier in the western Only the Valiant with Barbara Payton. Two years later, Peck appeared as a journalist who falls in love with a princess in the romantic comedy Roman Holiday (1953) with Audrey Hepburn. During the late 1950s, he portrayed Captain Ahab in Moby Dick (1956), war hero Joseph G. Clemons in Pork Chop Hill (1959), and writer F. Scott Fitzgerald in Beloved Infidel (1959).

He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as Atticus Finch, a lawyer attempting to exonerate a black man wrongly accused of rape in courtroom drama To Kill a Mockingbird (1962).[8] The role topped the AFI's 50 Greatest Screen Heroes.[9] Seven years later, he appeared in the title role of the western Mackenna's Gold, and as a spy in The Chairman. In the late 1970s, Peck played General Douglas MacArthur in the eponymous 1977 film and Nazi doctor Josef Mengele in The Boys from Brazil (1978).

Peck made his television debut in 1982 by appearing as President Abraham Lincoln in the miniseries The Blue and the Gray.[7] He followed this with the television film The Scarlet and the Black where he portrayed Catholic priest Hugh O'Flaherty who helped Jews and prisoners of war to hide in World War II-era Rome.[10] For his appearance as Father Mapple in the 1998 miniseries Moby Dick, he received the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film and a nomination for a Primetime Emmy.[11][12]

Film

A black and white photograph in a publicity photograph for The Keys of the Kingdom.
In The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)
A black and white photograph of Peck with Barbara Payton in Only the Valiant.
With Barbara Payton in Only the Valiant (1951)
A black and white photograph of Peck with Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday.
With Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday (1953)
A black and white photograph of Peck as Captain Ahab in Moby Dick.
Captain Ahab in Moby Dick (1956)
Year Title Role(s) Notes Ref(s)
1944 Days of Glory Vladimir [13]
1944 The Keys of the Kingdom Father Francis Chisholm Best Actor Oscar nomination [14]
1945 The Valley of Decision Paul Scott [15]
1945 Spellbound Dr. Anthony Edwardes / John Ballantyne Best Picture Oscar nomination [16]
1946 The Yearling "Penny" Baxter Best Picture Oscar nomination

Best Actor Oscar nomination

[17][18]
1946 Duel in the Sun Lewt McCanles [19]
1947 The Macomber Affair Robert Wilson [20]
1947 Gentleman's Agreement Philip Schuyler Green Best Picture Oscar award

Best Actor Oscar nomination

[17][21]
1947 The Paradine Case Anthony Keane [22]
1948 Yellow Sky James "Stretch" Dawson [23]
1949 The Great Sinner Fedja [24]
1949 Twelve O'Clock High Brigadier General Frank Savage Best Picture Oscar nomination

Best Actor Oscar nomination

[25]
1950 The Gunfighter Jimmy Ringo [26]
1951 Captain Horatio Hornblower Captain Horatio Hornblower [27]
1951 Only the Valiant Captain Richard Lance [17]
1951 David and Bathsheba David [28]
1951 Pictura: An Adventure in Art Narrator Documentary; anthology film, segment: "Legend of Saint Ursula" [17][29]
1952 The World in His Arms Jonathan Clark [17]
1952 The Snows of Kilimanjaro Harry Street [27]
1953 Roman Holiday Joe Bradley Best Picture Oscar nomination

Best Actress Oscar award

[30]
1953 Boum sur Paris Himself French film [31]
1954 The Million Pound Note Henry Adams [32]
1954 Night People Colonel Steve Van Dyke [32]
1954 The Purple Plain Squadron Leader Bill Forrester [33]
1956 The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit Tom Rath [17]
1956 Moby Dick Captain Ahab [34]
1957 Designing Woman Mike Hagen [17]
1958 The Hidden World Narrator Documentary [35]
1958 The Bravados Jim Douglas [17]
1958 The Big Country James McKay Also producer [36]
1959 Pork Chop Hill Lieutenant Joe Clemons [36]
1959 Beloved Infidel F. Scott Fitzgerald [36]
1959 On the Beach Dwight Towers [37]
1961 The Guns of Navarone Captain Keith Mallory Best Picture Oscar nomination [38]
1962 Cape Fear Sam Bowden [39]
1962 How the West Was Won Cleve Van Valen Best Picture Oscar nominatiopn [40]
1962 To Kill a Mockingbird Atticus Finch Best Picture Oscar nomination

Best Actor Oscar award

[41]
1963 Captain Newman, M.D. Capt. Josiah J. Newman [17]
1964 Behold a Pale Horse Manuel Artiguez [17]
1964 John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums Narrator Documentary [42]
1965 Mirage David Stillwell [17]
1966 Arabesque David Pollock [43]
1968 The Stalking Moon Sam Varner [44]
1969 Mackenna's Gold Mackenna [45]
1969 The Chairman John Hathaway [46]
[47]
1969 Marooned Charles Keith [17]
1970 I Walk the Line Sheriff Henry Tawes [17]
1971 Shoot Out Clay Lomax [17]
1972 The Trial of the Catonsville Nine Producer [48]
1974 Billy Two Hats Arch Deans [17][49]
1974 The Dove Producer [50]
1976 The Omen Robert Thorn [51]
1977 MacArthur General Douglas MacArthur [52]
1978 The Boys from Brazil Josef Mengele [53]
1980 The Sea Wolves Colonel Lewis Pugh [54]
1987 Amazing Grace and Chuck President [55]
1989 Old Gringo Ambrose Bierce [56]
1989 Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren Narrator Documentary [57]
1991 Other People's Money Andrew "Jorgy" Jorgenson [58]
1991 Cape Fear Lee Heller [59]
1994 The Hunt for Adolf Eichmann Narrator Documentary [60]
1995 Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick Himself Documentary [61]
1999 The Art of Norton Simon Narrator Documentary short film [62]
2000 A Conversation with Gregory Peck Himself Documentary [63]

Television

A black and white photograph of Peck as Abraham Lincoln in The Blue and the Gray.
Peck as Abraham Lincoln in a still from the television miniseries The Blue and the Gray (1982)
Year(s) Title Role(s) Notes Ref(s)
1982 The Blue and the Gray Abraham Lincoln Television miniseries [64]
1983 The Scarlet and the Black Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty Television film [65]
1985 57th Academy Awards Producer [66]
1990 Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret Himself Documentary [67]
1991 Frederic Remington: The Truth of Other Days Narrator Documentary [68]
1993 The Portrait Gardner Church Television film; also executive producer [69]
1994 Baseball Kid Gleason and Connie Mack Voice, Documentary miniseries [70]
1998 Moby Dick Father Mapple Television miniseries [71]
1999 American Prophet: The Story of Joseph Smith Narrator Documentary [72]

Stage

Year(s) Title Role Theatre Notes Ref.
1942 The Morning Star Cliff Parrilow Morosco Theatre September 14 – October 3 [73]
1942–1943 The Willow and I Kirkland Todd and Robin Todd Windsor Theatre December 10, 1942 – January 2, 1943 [73]
1943 Sons and Soldiers Andrew Tadlock Morosco Theatre May 4–22 [73]
1947 Angel Street Mr. Manningham La Jolla Playhouse August 26–31 [74][75]
1948 The Male Animal Tommy Turner La Jolla Playhouse August 24–28 [74][76]
1949 Light Up the Sky Unknown La Jolla Playhouse July 26–31 [74]
1991–1993 The Will Rogers Follies Mr. Ziegfeld (voice) Palace Theatre May 1, 1991 – September 5, 1993 [73]

Radio

A black and white photograph of Peck for CBS Radio.
Publicity photograph for CBS Radio
Year(s) Title Role Notes Ref(s)
1944 That They Might Live Dick [77]
1944 Screen Guild Players Count Vronsky Episode: "Anna Karenina" [77][78]
1945 This Is My Best Unknown Episode: "Jupiter Laughs" [79]
1945 Screen Guild Players Thomas Armstrong Episode: "Romance" [79]
1945 The Doctor Fights Dr. Harry Joseph Episode: "Medicine for the Enemy" [80]
1946 Theatre of Romance Holger Brandt Episode: "Intermezzo" [80]
1946 Lux Radio Theatre Paul Scott Episode: "Valley of Decision" [81]
1946 Lux Radio Theatre Jerry Durance Episode: "Now, Voyager" [81][82]
1946 Cavalcade of America George Washington Episode: "Young Major Washington" [83]
1946 Suspense Steve Gare Episode: "The Lonely Road" [83][84]
1946 Hollywood Players Sullivan Episode: "Sullivan's Travels" [85]
1946 Hollywood Players Unknown Episode: "No Time for Comedy" [86]
1946 Hollywood Players Gregory Episode: "All Through the House" [87]
1947 Screen Guild Players Pa Baxter Episode: "The Yearling" [87]
1947 Cavalcade for America Jim Davenport Episode: "School for Men" [88]
1948 Duffy's Tavern Himself [89]
1948 Suspense Ridge Fowler Episode: "Hitchhiker Poker" [90]
1949 Suspense Jeffrey Bruno Episode: "Murder Through the Looking Glass" [91]
1949 Screen Directors Playhouse James "Stretch" Dawson Episode: "Yellow Sky" [92]
1949 Suspense Ben Episode: "Nightmare" [93]
1949 The Hotpoint Holiday Hour Burt Jefferson Episode: "The Man Who Came To Dinner" [94]
1951 Screen Directors Playhouse Jimmy Ringo Episode: "The Gunfighter" [95]
1951 Suspense Mr. MacIntyre Episode: "The Truth About Jerry Baxter" [90]
1952 Cavalcade of America Unknown Episode: "A Prisoner Named Brown" [96]
1952 Lux Radio Theatre Captain Horatio Hornblower Episode: "Captain Horatio Hornblower" [97]
1952 Stars in the Air Pa Baxter Episode: "The Yearling" [98]

Bibliography

  • Biltereyst, Daniel; Maltby, Richard; Meers, Philippe (February 5, 2019). The Routledge Companion to New Cinema History. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-317-35395-9.
  • Haney, Lynn (March 24, 2005). Gregory Peck: A Charmed Life. Pavilion Books. ISBN 978-1-86105-824-9.
  • Molyneaux, Gerard (1995). Gregory Peck: A Bio-bibliography. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-28668-1.

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